Mugshot and such
I think I see the point now. Took a while to get over that “WTF? Redhat? Web services? Social networking and ajax?” -thingy, but in a way this is not much different from what I have been thinking about a lot lately as well.
There’s a lot more software these days than what’s we used to think of as “the desktop” as well. While working around Maemo.org I have realized the mobile devices, the OLPC, the internet tablet are a whole new area - and since it’s a new frontier and while we have had some really interesting web services for a while - like flickr, google calendar etcetera - it’s a whole new interesting trend to use those with mobile devices, blogging and posting photos directly from where you are. Blogging while commuting, posting pics when taking a break from a hike etc.. Checking out what your friends are doing tonight, maybe someone wants to go to dinner together.. there was this nice restaurant Joe found.. you get the picture. Software, part of the mythical “real life”? 
Computers are starting to move around a lot. Laptops are being sold like crazy, and there are more and more of those small handheld thingys that one can use to access the net with. Very interesting stuff.
June 9th, 2006 at 03:29
Yeah, there’s some cool possibilities there. The last feature I added to DejaPIM for the Nokia 770 before I got laid off (so who knows if it will see the light of day, since there is currently nobody working on that product at CompanionLink) was a “Map” button on the contact screen that launched the browser with the Google Maps URL for that address. That’s sort of thing that would be really useful when I’m going to a friends place and I find that I only half remember how to get there.